{"id":7483,"date":"2011-12-21T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=7483"},"modified":"2011-12-21T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T15:20:55","slug":"missing-from-dove-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/missing-from-dove-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing from Dove Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clayton Eshleman sent the following list of important 20th century\u00a0American\u00a0poets missing from the recent Rita Dove edited Penguin Anthology of Twentieth Century American Poetry<\/strong>. As I know very well for having committed a few anthologies myself, exclusions are not only inevitable but also necessary: it is often who the editor leaves out that says more about where the editor is coming from or heading toward than the simple list of inclusions. Now, the Dove anthology clearly does not represent my vision of what was important in 20th century American poetry: to begin with the title, Dove’s label is misleading in that what she is talking about is, well, United Sates poetry \u2014 \u00a0the definition of the book as “American” is problematic, even if & maybe exactly because one or two non-United-Statlers sneak into her TOC (and maybe\u00a0paradoxically\u00a0also because of the laudable effort Dove does make of including a range of non-white poets, men and women.) On the other hand I nearly feel the need to defend Dove when that old Harvard critical warhorse, Helen Vendler, comes out in the NYRB<\/a> & damns her (in words very similar to the ones she used 30 years ago to damn the Rothenberg & Quasha America a Prophecy<\/em> anthology \u2014 see Charles Bernstein’s blog here<\/a>) as in the traditional reactionary New England vision of things \u00a0“no century in the evolution of poetry in English ever had 175 poets worth reading,” i.e. 4 or 5 white males with a token white female & \u00a0one or tow non-whites thrown in for good measure is quite enough to make up a canon…\u00a0 Here then a few exclusions in no particular order (Plath & Ginsberg, according to Dove, were too expensive for Penguin to include), first Clayton’s list & then a short addendum list that came to mind as I typed in CE’s:<\/p>\n

Louis Zukofsky<\/strong>
\nGeorge Oppen<\/strong>
\nCharles Reznikoff <\/strong>
\nCarl Rakosi<\/strong>
\nLaura Riding <\/strong>
\nMina Loy<\/strong>
\nWilliam Bronk<\/strong>
\nPaul Blackburn<\/strong>
\nAllen Ginsberg<\/strong>
\nLarry Eigner<\/strong>
\nEdward Dorn<\/strong>
\nJack Kerouac<\/strong>
\nLorine Niedecker<\/strong>
\nJackson Mac Low<\/strong>
\nJack Spicer<\/strong>
\nSylvia Plath<\/strong>
\nRobin Blaser<\/strong>
\nCharles Bernstein<\/strong>
\nArmand Schwerner<\/strong>
\nPhilip Lamantia <\/strong>
\nMichael McClure<\/strong>
\nPhilip Whalen<\/strong>
\nCid Corman <\/strong>
\nBarbara Guest<\/strong>
\nJames Schuyler <\/strong>
\nRon Padgett <\/strong>
\nTony Towle <\/strong>
\nCharles North<\/strong>
\nJerome Rothenberg <\/strong>
\nRobert Kelly <\/strong>
\nClayton Eshleman<\/strong>
\nDavid Antin<\/strong>
\nGerrit Lansing <\/strong>
\nBob Perelman <\/strong>
\nRae Armantrout <\/strong>
\nRachel Blau DuPlessis <\/strong>
\nJohn Wieners <\/strong>
\nNathaniel Tarn <\/strong>
\nClark Coolidge <\/strong>
\nGustaf Sobin <\/strong>
\nEdward Sanders <\/strong>
\nJohn Taggert <\/strong>
\nDavid Bromige <\/strong>
\nJayne Cortez<\/strong>
\nFanny Howe <\/strong>
\nSusan Howe<\/strong>
\nKeith Waldrop <\/strong>
\nRosmarie Waldrop<\/strong>
\nJudy Grahn <\/strong>
\nAugust Kleinzahler <\/strong>
\nAnne Waldman <\/strong>
\nKenneth Rexroth <\/strong>
\nAndrew Joron <\/strong>
\nForrest Gander<\/strong>
\nWill Alexander <\/strong>
\nDiane DiPrima<\/strong>
\nAlice Notley <\/strong>
\nElaine Equi
\nThom Gunn
\nWilliam Everson
\nBrenda Hillman
\n<\/strong>Linh Dinh
\nJohn Olson
\nAnselm Hollo
\nMei-Mei Berssenbrugge
\nCarla Harryman
\nDavid Shapiro
\nLeslie Scalapino\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

& a few more instantly come to mind:<\/p>\n

Thomas Meyer
\nBernadette Mayer
\nLewis Warsh
\nKenneth Irby
\nTheodore Enslin
\n<\/strong>Jack Collom
\n<\/strong>David Meltzer
\nCole Swenson
\nJoanne Kyger
\nLew Welsh
\nBob Kaufman
\nEdwin Torres
\n<\/strong>Jonathan Williams
\nTom Clark
\nDick Higgins
\ncari edwards
\nFrank Samperi
\nJoel Oppenheimer\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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